Larry Page Quotes

The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity, owned by the very rich and managed by over-paid executives.

I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.

I never wanted Ford to be a place, like the tobacco industry, where our employees were not proud of coming to work for us. I felt there was a danger of that, should we be marginalized as a major polluter.

I happen to represent Enron here in Houston. We have many good corporate citizens here in Houston. Enron happened to have been one.

'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.

I don't represent corporations.

If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don't really want to have an exception to that model. It's much easier to say, 'Yes, Whole Foods has been corrupted.'

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.

Excessive pandering to stockholders is as bad as any other form of pandering

I think corporations and people are very different. People make corporations whatever it is that they're going to be.

I'm a corporate thug. That's the best way to be.

Enron - although an extreme case - is hardly the only company with a hollow set of values.

I sometimes wonder how some people can live with themselves in some of the big companies today. So many far-reaching decisions are based on how they will affect the next shareholders' meeting.

I have not changed my position. It is the same exact thing. We can not let crazed, insane businessmen who put their bottom line ahead of the planet - And I'm talking about Rex Tillerson.

I think most corporate executives are good honorable honest men and women who do good work.

We've got some well-run corporations by some well-intended people who do it right.

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.

Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business.

How many big businesses don't resort to underhand means?

Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.

The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.

People are worried about the degree to which corporate interest is starting to threaten human interest.

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.